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  Patriot Games (1992)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Although this film was a sequel to The Hunt for Red October (1990), the action of the original novels was in the opposite order: the novel "Patriot Games" was a prequel.
Patriot Games is a very well done action movie.
Patriot Games is well worth your while, especially if you like smart action pictures and Harrison Ford.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0105112   (400 words)

  
  Brad Cox, Ph.D.
The patriots, by contrast, have a more generalized fear of Big Government, which they say is rapidly robbing individuals of their inalienable rights, chief among them the right to bear arms.
Patriots also fear that foreign powers, working through organizations like the United Nations and treaties like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, are eroding the power of America as a sovereign nation.
The patriot movement was galvanized by two events: the bloody face-off in rural Idaho between white separatist Randy Weaver and law-enforcement officials in 1992 and the fiery siege of the Waco, Texas, compound of cult leader David Koresh in 1993.
www.virtualschool.edu /mon/SocialConstruction/PatriotGames.html   (1172 words)

  
 'Patriot' games
The case made by administration officials before the 9/11 commission is that part of the reason 9/11 might have happened is that domestic law enforcement and foreign intelligence agencies, principally the FBI and the CIA, didn't communicate with one another and that the Patriot Act fixes the problem.
Attorney General John Ashcroft appealed that decision and an appeals court ruled that the FISA court had misinterpreted the statute and that the surveillance requested was to be authorized.
Furthermore, while the Patriot Act was sold as a way to increase the effectiveness of government actions against terrorist threats, its provisions increasingly have been used in ordinary criminal cases.
www.antiwar.com /ocregister/patriot-games.html   (1268 words)

  
 2.11: Patriot Games
The company's strategy is embodied in the Patriot, a very low-exhaust-emissions, 200-mph, hybrid electric race car with which it plans to win next June's 24 Hours of LeMans in the north of France.
The Patriot will be powered by parts and pieces that until very recently were top-secret components of cutting-edge defense research projects, including the Star Wars missile defense system and the Seawolf advanced nuclear attack submarine.
Because of the intense vibrations a car encounters at racing speeds, the Patriot team is subjecting to particular scrutiny three separate de-ionized water-cooling systems that handle the heat generated by the power controller, turbo alternator, and various bearings and stators.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/2.11/patriot_pr.html   (2146 words)

  
 Patriot games. - By Robert Poe - Slate Magazine
Before the Patriot Act, the subject of the NSL had to be a suspected foreign intelligence agent or terrorist, or to have had contact with one.
After Patriot, the records sought needed merely be "relevant" to a national security investigation—which might mean whatever the FBI thought it meant.
Either way, the renewal of the sections of the Patriot Act due to sunset this year could hinge on the outcome of this appeal, and on the spin campaign that accompanies it.
www.slate.com /id/2114506   (1511 words)

  
 Wired 2.11: Patriot Games
Chrysler has avoided the battery problem altogether in the Patriot design by using a flywheel (conceptually similar to a child's gyroscope) to store energy, rather than traditional, heavy chemical batteries like the ones found in electric cars.
One of the Patriot team's biggest concerns is ensuring that its high-powered hybrid is safe.
In the case of Patriot, engineers are plotting ways to deal safely with both the supercold LNG fuel and the massive amounts of electricity that will be available in the car.
wired.com /wired/archive/2.11/patriot.html?pg=2&...   (661 words)

  
 The Editors on Patriot Act on National Review Online
Thanks to Patriot, the wall came down and agents were able to start "connecting the dots." The government now reports that it has disrupted several terror plots and, in a series of successful prosecutions, broken up cells in New York, Portland, Virginia, and elsewhere.
Their claims that Patriot would permit indiscriminate interceptions over broad geographic areas were overstated, given that eavesdropping is not permitted absent a judicial finding of probable cause that an agent of a foreign power is the target.
All Patriot did was impose a single, national standard for delaying notice — replacing a hodgepodge of judge-made rules that varied from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
www.nationalreview.com /editorial/editors200512140926.asp   (1004 words)

  
 Patriot Games
Following a day-long debate on Thursday, the House voted 257 to 171 to extend, and in some case make permanent, the most controversial provisions of the law that was hastily crafted in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The Patriot Act was never intended as an emergency measure," argued Representative Lynn Woolsey, the California Democrat who has long been an outspoken critic of the law that had its start in former Attorney General John Ashcroft's Justice Department.
While he is still hopeful about prospects that the Senate can pass a better bill and then negotiate changes in the House legislation, Feingold was disappointed by the failure of the House to address the fundamental civil liberties concerns that have been raised by the Bush administration's approach.
www.commondreams.org /views05/0723-25.htm   (914 words)

  
 EFF: USA PATRIOT
The USA PATRIOT Act broadly expands law enforcement's surveillance and investigative powers and represents one of the most significant threats to civil liberties, privacy and democratic traditions in U.S. history.
The USA PATRIOT Act (officially the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act) was quickly developed as anti-terrorism legislation in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
PATRIOT gives sweeping search and surveillance to domestic law enforcement and foreign intelligence agencies and eliminates checks and balances that previously gave courts the opportunity to ensure that those powers were not abused.
www.eff.org /patriot   (533 words)

  
 Patriot Games
This act, pushed through Congress in the wake of the September 11 attacks (indeed 9-11 seems to be one of the best reasons to jab and prune the Bill of Rights), PATRIOT was read by fewer than 5% of Senators before being voted on.
PATRIOT has powerfully good points, such as allowing database sharing between FBI and CIA offices in processing federal felony cases.
However, as defined in PATRIOT, terrorism is “attempting to influence the policy of the government.” By that law, I am a terrorist for writing this, and so are you by reading it and not turning me in to Homeland Security.
www.useless-knowledge.com /articles/apr/110.html   (750 words)

  
 Patriot Games News
Patriot Games News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Clear and Present Danger, The Hunt for Red October and Patriot Games were very successful spy movies back in the day and apparently Paramount is looking for more of that sort of success, but they are going...
PATRIOT GAMES actress ANNE ARCHER has leaped to the defence of TOM CRUISE and KATIE HOLMES' plans for a silent birth later this month.
www.topix.net /movies/patriot-games   (674 words)

  
 Law.com - 'Patriot' Games
The Patriot Act contains a sunset clause that would terminate new or expanded law enforcement/intelligence powers in 14 provisions of the law as of Dec. 31, 2005.
Sponsors of the bills have little hope of getting committee hearings on their measures, but instead plan to build support for them during the coming year and to look for opportunities to insert their proposals into other bills that reach the floors of the House and Senate.
Definition of domestic terrorism: The Patriot Act defines domestic terrorism as conduct that violates state or federal law and is dangerous to human life.
www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1081792936987   (1805 words)

  
 Patriot Performance Heads
The combustion chambers are cut on the CNC machine, and the size is actually increased from 42 to 46cc, but according to Terry Wilkes of Patriot, this improves flow.
Patriot Performance is new to the Ford 4.6 market, but they are not new to cylinder head porting.
Patriot shipped us the heads assembled, but we'll be installing the Comp Cams camshafts in the shop and swapping over the finger followers and hydraulic lash compensators from the old heads.
www.musclemustangfastfords.com /tech/0404mm_patriot   (1377 words)

  
 How good are those Patriot missiles? - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
The new version of the air-defense weapon, known as the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (or PAC-3) is said to have intercepted four of the six missiles that Iraq has fired at Kuwait.
A Patriot was counted as having made a successful "intercept" when it got within lethal range of the Scud and its fuse exploded.
With the old Patriot, known as PAC-2, a radar scanned the sky for missiles or airplanes.
www.slate.com /id/2080615   (1208 words)

  
 Independent Weekly: Columns: Derek Jennings: Derek Jennings
As the recent tax-cut bill did for corporate interests, the PATRIOT Act uses the cover of recent terrorist tragedies to provide law enforcement and the intelligence community a laundry list of things for which they'd been asking for years but were denied by a wary Congress.
Under the PATRIOT Act, the most moderate and clearheaded members of these organizations in our country could be summarily rounded up, detained or deported, leaving no diplomatic options and strengthening the hand of real terrorists.
Given what is known about the suicide hijackers, no provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, had they been in force, would have alerted the government to the plot or foiled the Sept. 11 attacks.
www.indyweek.com /durham/2001-11-07/jennings.html   (1670 words)

  
 Patriot Games: Collector's Edition (1992)
At 116 minutes, Patriot is the shortest of the four Ryan movies, but it feels like the longest, partially because it lacks much of a narrative.
Patriot Games appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
Patriot Games is the movie to get when you’ve seen the rest of them first.
www.dvdmg.com /patriotgames.shtml   (2151 words)

  
 Patriot games | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Any definition of patriotism that demands unquestioning loyalty, regardless of the situation, is a poor excuse for love of one's country, and an abrogation of the duties that we have as citizens of that country.
One of the most patriotic things a man or a woman can do is to take a stand against popular wisdom or public opinion, if he or she feel s it is in the best interests of the country, even if the country doesn't want to admit it.
That's why of the 100 votes cast in the Senate concerning the USA Patriot Act, which gave sweeping, perhaps unconstitutional powers to the Attorney General (which most senators hadn't even bothered to read), only the lone vote of dissent cast by Wisconsin Senator Russell Feingold qualifies as a truly patriotic act, in my book.
www.csmonitor.com /2001/1130/p25s2-coop.html   (900 words)

  
 Salt Lake City Weekly - Patriot Games
No, it’s the first resort of those elected to the House of Representatives, who this month voted 286-130 in favor of a constitutional amendment prohibiting “the physical desecration of the flag of the United States,” which now moves to a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate sometime after July 4.
So it is that “patriots” support the government’s right to know what books you’ve purchased or borrowed from the library.
A “patriot” likes and supports a government that detains people without due process, bars entry of foreign journalists, or collects information on anti-war protestors.
www.slweekly.com /editorial/2005/edit_2005-06-30.cfm   (832 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Patriot Games: Video: Harrison Ford,Anne Archer,Patrick Bergin,Sean Bean,Thora Birch,James Fox,Samuel L. ...
Patriot Games was the second in a series of adaptations of Tom Clancy's bestselling novels featuring heroic CIA analyst Jack Ryan.
"Patriot Games" is a film that could strive to do something important with the thriller genre, but instead ends up being an obvious, humdrum, and stale thriller film that deflates...
Patriot Games is an exciting and deep movie about IRA terrorism in London and Harrison Ford's intervention.
www.amazon.com /Patriot-Games-Harrison-Ford/dp/079212569X   (1922 words)

  
 PATRIOT Games - Colored Stone September/October 2005
The U.S.A. PATRIOT Act, which stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, was passed in October 2001, in the aftermath of the events of September 11.
The jewelry industry was included in the PATRIOT Act because jewelry and its components present identifiable money laundering risks — they are easy to transport and serve as highly concentrated forms of wealth.
Since the PATRIOT Act provisions were first published, industry organizations have been partnering with the JVC to present workshops designed to help the jewelry industry understand what is expected and how to comply with the provisions.
www.tucsonshowguide.com /stories/sep05/patriotact.cfm   (1275 words)

  
 Patriot Games (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patriot Games is a film based on the novel of the same name by Tom Clancy.
It was released on June 5, 1992 and directed by Phillip Noyce.
The actors to originally play Jack and Carolyn Ryan in The Hunt for Red October, Alec Baldwin and Gates McFadden, were unavailable due to other commitments and were recast for Patriot Games.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patriot_Games_(film)   (614 words)

  
 Patriot Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patriot Games (1987) is a book by Tom Clancy.
The title comes from an Irish Rebel Song called The Patriot Game, an Irish ballad about the Border Campaign in Northern Ireland.
Ryan saves the Prince of Wales and his family from a breakaway Irish terrorist group, the Ulster Liberation Army, who go after Ryan and his family, partially as an act of revenge, but primarily because they seek to undermine public (and specifically American) support for the PIRA.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patriot_Games   (304 words)

  
 JURIST - Forum: PATRIOT Games: Terrorism Law and Executive Power
It remains to be seen whether the Patriot Act will survive in a version closer to that proposed by the House or by the Senate.
The sections of the Patriot Act the public has found most troubling (albeit sometimes on the basis of misinformation), like the “sneak and peek” and “library” provisions, are the very provisions Congress has considered amending.
Along with everyone else, I had expected that the Patriot Act legislation would be settled by the end of the year, whatever its content.
jurist.law.pitt.edu /forumy/2006/01/patriot-games-terrorism-law-and.php   (1826 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Patriot Games (James Horner)
Patriot Games: (James Horner) It would be a difficult task for anyone to succeed The Hunt for Red October in a series of film scores, but James Horner is one of the few who is normally up to the task.
One thing remained the same, however: Patriot Games was a high budget, action-packed powerhouse of a film that badly needed a strong score to be delivered in its favor.
Now, I have nothing against Thunderheart --it was an magificent underscore to compliment the spirituality of that film-- but Patriot Games needed an entirely different kind of approach.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/patriot_games.html   (682 words)

  
 AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Patriot Games
Cottrell has the USA Patriot Act to thank for the extra three years and four months he may serve in federal prison for that night of indiscretion.
That particular section of the guidelines was amended in 2002 in response to the Patriot Act.
While Booker advises that matters relevant to sentencing should be proven to a jury, the Patriot Act, in its definition of domestic terrorism, only requires that crimes "appear to be intended" to coerce and intimidate either a civilian population or the government to qualify as terrorism.
www.alternet.org /rights/22001   (2586 words)

  
 IGN: Patriot Games
Peter's time on the Patriots is cut short however when his ego becomes too much for the team to handle.
We don't have a recap for Patriot Games.
We don't have a goof for Patriot Games.
tv.ign.com /objects/825/825922.html   (211 words)

  
 Patriot Games by Phillip Noyce at Video Hills.com
"Patriot Games" is a film that could strive to do something important with the thriller genre, but instead ends up being an obvious, humdrum, and stale thriller film that deflates most of its sentiment.
Patriot Games is polished like a big budget blockbuster: the photography is sharp, as well, and the camera captures some great picturesque moments of the scenery, especially in the nighttime scenes.
Patriot Games is an under whelming venture into action-thrillers.
www.video-hills.com /Patriot-Games-079212569X.htm   (1470 words)

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